Check out politicians on Twitter from your province and identify those who might be receptive to defund/defend messages. You can also check Campaign Lie's handy list of MPPs, MLAs, MNAs, abd MHAs to find out where they stand on abortion -- if they've bothered to answer its questionnaire. Many I checked had not.

If you need some talking points for why abortion must be fully funded, ARCC has you covered here.

Let's do this.

UPDATE: Wow. Alison in the comments points out that ALL the comments at LifeShite on this article come from Murricans blatting about ObamaCare and the US government shut-down. Now we know that fetus fetishists aren't the sharpest pencils in the box, but this is a bit much. Alison asks: Just where does the funding for the Canadian anti-abortion gang come from again?

MORE UPDATE: AntoniaZ in the comments prefers #DefendChoice. Fine by me. But in this case, it is specifically abortion they want to defund. So I'll used #DefendAbortion and add #DefendChoice if I've got characters to spare.

AND MORE UPDATE: I haven't read this yet (11-page PDF). The Evangelical Whatsits have updated a 2012 evaluation on the requirement to fund abortion by provinces. Arming themselves for tomorrow, it seems.

10 comments:

Under the LifeSite Canada Edition about this twit-a-thon targetting Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Alberta, and Ontario MPs for Thursday are 46 comments.Canada or anything to do with Canada isn't mentioned once in any of them - it's all Americans raving on about Obama and Obamacare and "our founding fathers" and the American Constitution.Where does the anti-choice movement in Canada get their funding from again?

Well, #DefendAbortion has already been put out there on Facebook, Twitter, listservs etc., so it would be confusing to switch at this point, we'd end up with tweets using one or the other and that could weaken the impact. Also, it's meant to be a play on the "Defund Abortion" phrase. So while I might agree that #DefundChoice is better because it reflects repro options, I think it's too late.

LifeShite gets its funding solely from readers as far as I can tell. They have a big international reach so can raise a few 100 thou each year. And there was that piece last year documenting that the March for Life has gotten funding from Knights of Columbus in the U.S. http://www.vancouverobserver.com/politics/investigations/canadian-pro-life-fueled-us-lobbyists

Haha, now we have 3 hashtags! Thanks Amy for offering to switch. I guess we'll do the best we can by prioritizing #DefEnd Abortion (maybe putting the cap E in there is a nice touch too?) but it's fine if the other 2 get used too.They are all good.

Lifeshite chose to defame, harass and mailbomb F. Raymond Gravel for his pro-choice stand as an MMP. He sued for defamation. More here: http://www.catholicregister.org/news/canada/item/15777-first-round-goes-to-gravel-in-lifesite-lawsuit~waterbaby